Album
Brown Sugar
1995 · Hip Hop, Funk / Soul
34 collectors on Gatefold own this
Brown Sugar is a Soul & Funk album by D'Angelo, originally released in 1995. On Gatefold: 64 pressings tracked, owned by 34 collectors.
About
D’Angelo is a kaleidoscope of towering musicians: the founding father of neo-soul, the black Messiah, a tabloid star. But way back when he released <i>Brown Sugar</i>, his 1995 debut, he was a 20-year-old kid who'd spent several years barricaded in his bedroom in his mom’s house in Virginia with the music that mattered most to him: Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Prince, A Tribe Called Quest. And then he came up with <i>Brown Sugar</i>, a crazy haze of sound that points in a dozen different directions but stays in tight orbit around him: a new voice, a geniu, a fan, and a geek. The album enlists a then-revolutionary hybrid of modern studio tech and defective analog cast-off. And when the computer crashed in the tiny New Jersey studio where he was recording one day, D’Angelo killed 20 minutes by pounding out some vamped keyboard chord, coproducer Ali Shaheed Muhammad programmed a beat, and then they stared at each other in shock: The record's dazzling title tune had just come into being. .
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Tracklist
- 1Brown Sugar4:22
- 2Alright5:12
- 3Jonz in My Bonz5:55
- 4Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine4:46
- 5Shit, Damn, M**********r5:14
- 6Smooth4:21
- 7Cruisin'6:24
- 8When We Get By5:45
- 9Lady5:45
- 10Higher5:27
Sound DNA
- Soul & Funk
- Neo-Soul
- warm
- swaggering
- urban
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- D'AngeloARRANGED BY ARRANGED BY , VOCALS COMPOSED BY, ARRANGED BY, PERFORMER
- Alexander SimionescuVIOLIN
- Ali Shaheed MuhammadDRUM PROGRAMMING DRUMS
- AZFEATURING
- Bassy Bob BrockmannTRUMPET
- Bob PowerGUITAR RHYTHM GUITAR
- Dunn Pearson Jr.ARRANGED BY , CONDUCTOR ARRANGED BY CONDUCTOR , ARRANGED BY
- Eufrosina RaileanuVIOLA
- Gene LakeDRUMS
- Gerald TarackVIOLIN
- Jesse LevyCELLO
- Julien BarberVIOLA
- Kool G RapFEATURING
- Larry GrenadierBASS
- Laura VivinoFLUTE, PICCOLO FLUTE
- Marilyn WrightVIOLIN
- Mark WhitfieldGUITAR
- Masako YanagitaVIOLIN
34 collectors on Gatefold own this · 64 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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